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Over 1,000 students gathered on the campus of Tulane University in New Orleans to celebrate Zionism at the DYF (Declare Your Freedom) Music Festival. Most of the attendees were non-Jewish. There was a similar event at Indiana University a week later.

Malynnda Littky grew up in inner city Detroit. After 9/11 she began a spiritual search, which involved an Internet quiz about which religion would best suit her. She is now an Orthodox Jewess, with 4 children and lives in Israel.

This is a great video for those contemplating Aliya – but also for those who just love Israel.   

Bar-Ilan University awarded 616 scholarships in the name of two graduates of its joint BA program with the IDF’s elite Tactical Command College. Tsvika Kaplan and Dima Levitas were killed during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge.

Some of the ceremonies, gadgets, trappings and events to celebrate Israel at 67.

This animation video is entitled “Israel’s Miraculous Story As Never Seen Before!”

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sends a birthday message.

This article nicely sums up the Jewish State on its 67th birthday.

Avraham Shapira 32, from Yitzhar in the Shomron, gave his kidney to a 50-year-old man whom he had never met. When persuaded to publicize his act, his brother-in-law donated one of his own kidneys to a 60-year-old woman. Four more men from the Shomron have since followed suit.

To mark the Israel Museum’s 50th anniversary, the Shrine of the Book is displaying a gilt nano chip, the size of a sugar grain, on which the entire Bible is inscribed. The bible was produced at Israel’s Technion Institute. The text needs to be magnified 10,000 times in order to be legible.